Second to last farm share

Hi guys,
This farm share may be second to last, but I assure you it's second to none.
Here's what it is:
Apples-  We bought some beautiful Fall fuji apples through Georgie up at Willowood Farm to round out the shares this week.  It's so nice to have a bit of fruit in the shares.
Spinach-  We have some really nice spinach, but it is kind of in between bunching size and baby size, with nice sized leaves but not very long stems....so it may be a smaller bunch in the shares this week.
Delicata squash-  We have piles more of our delicata squash in storage.  These squash have nice thin edible skins, so no need to peel them!
Shallots-  A bunch more of our delicious red shallots.  I've been putting these in just about everything I cook recently.
Hakurei turnips-  These Japanese turnips are very sensitive to cold weather, so usually they would have been frost killed by now....luckily, the weather has been mild so we still have a bunch of em!
Carrots-  The carrot train keeps on rolling, with more nice medium sized Hilmar carrots.
Rutabega-  "Swedish turnips" or "Swedes", these big old winter roots are great for roasting, steaming, pureeing or mashing with potatoes.

And in large shares:
Cauliflower-  Better late than never...I thought our fall cauliflower would be ready a few weeks ago but it keeps delaying...finally, it seems like there are enough heads ready out in the field to put them in the large shares.
Swiss Chard-  A bunch of colorful Swiss chard to add a bit more braising greens to the large shares...
Leeks-  We are sadly getting to the end of our leeks.  It seemed like we had so many just a few months ago, but we have managed to pick them all!  Still enough to make another bunch for all the large shares though..

What a nice Fall we've been having.  It is starting to get colder now, but we still haven't really had a hard frost on the farm, and we have a lot of food still that we normally would have lost by now.  I am seeing some rain in the forecast for tomorrow, but some more dry days after that.
This week's share will be the normal size, but next week's will be a big share to finish of the year and stock up the pantry!

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